Sniffing out significant "pee values": Genome wide association study of asparagus anosmia

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 355, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Markt, Sarah C ^a   Nuttall, Elizabeth ^a   Turman, Constance ^a   Sinnott, Jennifer ^a,b   Rimm, Eric B ^a,c   Ecsedy, Ethan ^d   Unger, Robert H ^a   Fall, Katja ^a,e,f   Finn, Stephen ^g   Jensen, Majken K ^a,c   Rider, Jennifer R ^a,h   Kraft, Peter ^a   Mucci, Lorelei A ^a,c,f  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Cabot School   (United States)

^e ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^g TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^h BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; ASPARAGUS; ASPARAGUS ANOSMIA; CHROMOSOME 1Q; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ODOR; OR2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; URINALYSIS; CAUCASIAN; GENETICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMELLING DISORDER; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URINE;

AGED; ASPARAGUS PLANT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OLFACTION DISORDERS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEX FACTORS; SMELL; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; URINE;

EID: 85006341240     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i6071     Document Type: Article

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